Hey all, I ran into a bit of a problem right now. about 3 weeks ago, I went out to Anitec and bought an Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme. You know? The one with three fans and full coverage?

Anyways, when I was playing TF2 earlier, I was noticing that the game was artifacting. I alt-tabbed and checked with Nvidia Monitor and found out that my GPU was going over 100C. Now, this made me panic and I turned off the computer. When I opened up my case, I tried to touch the card/cooler and I was burned really badly.

After a while, when the card was no longer hot, I powered up the system and noticed that the fans on my cooler weren't working. I thought maybe the power to the fan plug was loose, so I took my card out and checked it out. I took the fan from my stock cooler and plugged it in. I powered it up and the fan was spinning, so I knew that it wasn't the card's problem. I tried to plug in my AC Acclero's fan into the card again, and powered up the system. The fans didn't spin.

Now, what do you suggest I do? Go directly to AC, or talk to Anitec about getting a replacement? Or should I try to fix it myself?

Have a talk to the shop you bought it from and explain that it was "dead on arrival" (DOA) and that the fans don't work, what is their policy on defective goods. If they are not helpful definitely shoot of an email to the manufacturer and explain the problem and how your old fans "do work", that you received the product DOA and see what they say. Don't attempt to fix something that you bought because it may void any warranty you have and you lose any potential support, only after exhausting all other avenues then you try and fix it.

Interesting, seems like my Arctic Cooling rep agrees. The fans are PWM controlled through the card.

So, what you are saying is that the fans WERE working and now they are not, correct? If so, can you plug it back into the card and see if Rivatuner can still adjust the fan speeds? If not, fan it READ the fan speeds through its monitor?

Interesting, seems like my Arctic Cooling rep agrees. The fans are PWM controlled through the card.

So, what you are saying is that the fans WERE working and now they are not, correct? If so, can you plug it back into the card and see if Rivatuner can still adjust the fan speeds? If not, fan it READ the fan speeds through its monitor?

Yeah, they were working before, but not anymore. I plugged the fans back into the card, opened up RivaTuner, and tried to change the fan speed. It would let me, but then I wouldn't hear any change in noise, and I can even see that the fan isn't working. And uhh, no program read the fan speed, so yeah.